posted 17. December 200609:24 PM
what bugs me the most is that they're chopped up the rhyme scheme! Do they not know what a stanza is? And they put the prose introduction and conclusions in the same style, so you can't tell which part is the poem. I have a feeling that no English majors passed this crap on, or it wouldn't look like that.

posted 17. December 200609:34 PM
Am I the only one who particularly appreciates the juxtaposition of specifically Christian religious notions with "luck" and magical concepts? In the body of the doggerel, we're told about prayer, about the "Holy Ghost", that "Salvation was for free", and that "God paid your bill a long long time ago". But in the last lines, we're told that "blessings" are contingent on forwarding glurge. Contradiction?

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posted 17. December 200610:09 PM
I've been a christian for almost 40 years and these fwds make me want to gag too. My friends and I make fun of them. If there is something worthy (ie decent poem) in any of them, the Wishes etc should be deleted before sending them. I think they probably make God gag too.

Yeah, when one of those packets of Holy gost leaks out the bottom of the cart its goes all over the shop. Don't you hate walking through those sticky Holy Ghost spills?

Dropbear

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quote:Originally posted by nanbanan: I've been a christian for almost 40 years and these fwds make me want to gag too. My friends and I make fun of them. If there is something worthy (ie decent poem) in any of them, the Wishes etc should be deleted before sending them. I think they probably make God gag too.

Welcome to the board! Just by reading this comment i think you'll fit in quite well here. Get thee over to the initiation thread for any questions you may have.

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posted 18. December 200604:19 AM
Hey, NANBANAN! Welcome! And I wholeheartedly agree with you. Most Christians probably want to hurl at this stuff. I constantly let it slip to my friends that I'm not into "mushy" stuff (aka glurge) but I get it anyway.

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posted 18. December 200612:47 PM
What section of the store is sanctimony, hipocracy, and judgment in?

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I would have thought that at least one proofreader would be in heaven.

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See... this part doen't really impress me with e-mail. A dude in the Netherlands sends e-mails it to his friend in Australia, who e-mails it to his other friend in the Netherlands (not in the same direction; he e-mails it the other way around to get it back) and it has been around the world. In 4 seconds. If it was a letter that 20,000 people had physically passed to one another to get it around the world, i'd be impressed at its mileage. But i wouldn't touch it. 'Cause it might have also been in a stripper's G-string, y'know.
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posted 18. December 200602:09 PM
That bit irritates me too. Am I supposed to know I'm the last link in the 10th circuit and change it to "10 times"? It's completely obvious it's part of the original text and not something that's being continually monitored and updated.

quote:Originally posted by NZUL: That bit irritates me too. Am I supposed to know I'm the last link in the 10th circuit and change it to "10 times"? It's completely obvious it's part of the original text and not something that's being continually monitored and updated.

You both beat me to it - listen carefully folks, as I'm only going to scream this at the top of my lungs once - EMAIL TRACKING SYSTEMS DO NOT EXIST.

posted 20. December 200611:56 PM
Hmmmm. In my hometown the grocery store slaps sale stickers on the expired milk. Maybe the author should have looked more carefully at her box of "Wisdom." It seems to have gone bad.

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